Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that a draft U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear program would isolate Iran, suggesting that Moscow will not back the resolution in its current form, news agencies reported. Russia has not ruled out sanctions against Iran but repeatedly has warned that harsh measures could harden Tehran's defiance and scuttle chances for a negotiated end to the prolonged standoff over its nuclear program. "We cannot support measures that in essence are aimed at isolating Iran from the outside world, including isolating people who are called upon to conduct negotiations on the nuclear program," Interfax quoted Lavrov as saying. The European resolution is meant to punish Iran for its refusal to halt uranium enrichment activities that have heightened fears it is seeking to develop nuclear weapons. ... http://abcnews.go.com

Guatemala and Venezuela agreed Wednesday to withdraw from the race for a seat on the U.N. Security Council and support Panama as a consensus candidate, ending a lengthy deadlock and paving the way for the Central American nation to join the U.N.'s most powerful body. Ecuador's U.N. Ambassador Diego Cordovez, who hosted two meetings Wednesday between the Guatemalan and Venezuelan foreign ministers, made the announcement of the breakthrough at Ecuador's U.N. Mission. "The two candidates reached an agreement to step down and they came up with Panama as a consensus candidate," Cordovez said. The race became political because the U.S. supports Guatemala over Venezuela, reports CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pamela Falk from the U.N. ...http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/01/world/main2143769.shtml?source=RSSattr=World_2143769

More than 70 Muslim workers at France's main airport have been stripped of the security clearance for allegedly posing a risk to passengers, officials say. The staff at Charles de Gaulle airport, including baggage handlers, are said to have visited terrorist training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. One man is thought to have been a friend of Richard Reid, the so-called British shoe bomber. Richard Reid tried to blow up a flight from Paris to the US in 2001. Earlier this year officials at Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris, conducted a security review of staff and questioned dozens of Muslim workers. More than 100 baggage handlers and aircraft cleaners had been under surveillance for months. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6108574.stm

He's flipped through the photographs, listened to the stories, read through all the letters. He's even trolled through his computer files looking for clues. But more than a month after he woke up with no memory on the streets of Denver, Jeff Ingram still has no idea who he is. "Family vacations, high school graduation, prom night … your first dance, your first kiss. That's all lost," Ingram said Wednesday. "It's very hard to put into words. … It's probably the most frustrating thing that a person can ever go through, is to lose their identity. Because your past is what makes you who you are today good or bad." Ingram made headlines when he turned up in Denver on Sept. 10. He says he awoke, alone and terrified, with no idea who or where he was. He had no wallet or ID just $8 cash, the clothes on his back, a few pieces of his jewelry and a driving headache. ...http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2622644

After decades of not reporting it, a man told authorities his sister killed four of her babies between 1965 and 1970, authorities said. When investigators tracked down Cheryl Athene Miller in San Francisco, where she was unemployed and living alone, she confessed to the murders and was arrested Monday, according to sheriff's Sgt. Scott Poma. Miller, 59, seemed ready to unburden herself, Poma said. "She kind of wanted to deal with it," he said. "She seemed surprised and remorseful." Miller was arraigned Wednesday on four counts of murder but did not enter a plea. If convicted, she could be sentenced to life in prison without parole. Miller, who has a record of minor offenses, was being held in lieu of $2 million bail and did not have an attorney on record. Her next court date was set for Nov. 17 ...http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2622643

Hundreds of leftist rebels bombarded a remote police station with makeshift mortars during a six-hour attack in northern Colombia Wednesday, killing at least 15 officers, authorities said. The attack on the police station in the village of Tierradentro, 230 miles northwest of Bogota, was the bloodiest since President Alvaro Uribe was re-elected in May in a landslide that endorsed his get-tough policy with the rebels. "The latest report I have is that there are 15 dead police, between 10 and 12 missing police and four civilians injured," said Jairo Lopez, the top security official for Cordoba state, where the attack occurred. "There were approximately 450 guerrillas." ...http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2621329